Joey Vento takes on the cowards
You know Joey Vento. One of my favorite Philly figures who tells it like it is.
The proud American son of Italian immigrants who stood up for assimilation at his famous cheesesteak restaurant, Geno’s, Vento successfully staved off a city “human rights” panel’s attempt to squelch his free speech. He defended a simple sign in his store that is still there today, telling customers: “”This is America. When ordering please speak English.”
Vento continues to voice his assimilationist message. He’s taking on the Democrat cowards who avoided the issue during the Pennsylvania primary and today he’s debating open-borders zealot Geraldo Rivera during a live debate in Philly to be broadcast on the Dom Giordano show on 1210AM WPHT. It’s a sold-out event:
On Tuesday, Primary Day, Barack Obama went across the street to Pat’s for a cheesesteak.
Same day, Hillary Clinton had a chicken cheesesteak with Italian greens in the Philadelphia suburbs.
To Geno’s owner Joey Vento, such decisions showed such a lack of courage that neither Democrat deserves to be president.
“If they don’t have the guts to come here and talk about the immigration problem … they’re not capable of running our country,” he said.
Tomorrow afternoon, Vento will take on Geraldo Rivera in a soldout debate on immigration at the Inquirer and Daily News Building at Broad and Callowhill Streets. The discussion will be carried live during Dom Giordano’s 1-to-4 p.m. show on WPHT (1210 AM, “The Big Talker”)…
… The last candidate to stop by Ninth and East Passyunk for a photo op was Republican Rudy Giuliani in October.
Obama and his wife, Michelle, went to Pat’s King of Steaks, Ninth and Wharton, where they ordered theirs “Whiz with” - avoiding John Kerry’s famed faux pas there four years ago of ordering a cheesesteak hoagie with Swiss.
Hillary Clinton avoided both landmarks, grabbing her chicken steak at Boccella’s restaurant while in Conshohocken.
“They’re both dummies, as far as I’m concerned,” said Vento.
Vento demonstrates how Straight Talk is done right:
“I’m disappointed in McCain, too, you know,” he said of John McCain, the likely Republican nominee.
“What I like about him is he’s probably got about 40 percent of conservative left in him,” Vento said.
If the Arizona senator stops in, maybe he’d learn a thing or two from Vento and get straightened out, the South Philly politicial whiz said.
“I have no problem with legal immigration,” he added. “… You shouldn’t be rewarded for not obeying the law.”
You can listen live to 1210am at the WPHT website here.
Give ‘em hell, Joey!
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Commenter Desert Lover: “McCain should replace Juan Hernandez with Joey Vento as his immigration advisor.”
We can dream…
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Geraldo Rivera’s head has the same contents as Al Capone’s Vault.
Watch out Joey, he’ll probably spit on you.
McCain should replace Juan Hernandez with Joey Vento as his Immigration advisor … He would immmediately gain hundreds of thousands of supporters and their votes …
As for Obamanation and Shrillary … no surprise … their leftist socialist mantra demands that they go out of their way to avoid being challenged on everything … so they will never knowingly go anywhere there is a chance they will be brought to task over their views and statements on anything … especially including immigration issues …
GO JOEY …
GO LINDA DAVES …
GO JOE ARPAIO …
We need more people like these …
Hehehehe I can only imagine, Jerry da spitter trying to shout down an irate American of Italian heritage when they both know Jerry is as full of “it” as a turkey before being cooked and they both know Geno is right.
So who are youse guys betting on? My buck is on Geno!
If the debate is typical, Geraldo Rivera will simply talk over Joey and nothing of any substance will be heard by anyone.
The liberal definition for debate is “talk louder than your opponent and interrupt as often as necessary.”
geraldo will just scream and yell and not allow Joey to talk. typical liberal debater.
Chicken skat liberals.
Jungatheart, I only lived in Philly for about a year but I had some Italian friends there and going to their houses for dinner was always an amazing affair. Everybody had to shout over top of everybody else in order to be heard except at the dinner table. If my experience is any indicator, I do not think Geno can be shouted down by any man … much less by Jerry Rivera.
Just my two cents and we will have to see what we will see but my money is staying on Geno.
While I would like to see Joey win this debate, I have my doubts about it’s happening. Geraldo will simply outshout him. It’s what he’s done on Bill Oreilly’s show and seems to serve him well.
Dang, that almost sounds better than meeting up with bear and the NFL draft.
Have something to look forward to for sure Germaldo will put his foot in it.
I wish Vento was running. I’d rather vote for him than any of the three nimords that are.
Just for the record, Geraldo may wanna think twice about spitting on Joey….Im just saying…..
Glass half full kinda guy….gotta love it!!!
Well, 40% full anyway…
Good luck, Mr. Vento! Stick to your guns - but remember - assimilation equals racism to most MSM-types like Geraldo and the NYT, so don’t let’em throw you off message.
Is there an internet link we could go to and listen to this debate? It could be more entertaining than Sunday Night Football.
#14-
well, i guess Teddy Roosevelt was a racist then with his view on assimilation and immigration….
Alaskan
Michelle gave the link to the radio station above … but here it is again …
Radio Link for Debate
Jungleheart, you forgot the other option, ANSWER EVERY QUESTION WITH ANOTHER QUESTION………
I doubt Joey will be asking questions. He will be trying to tell it like it is over Gerry’s fili-bluster.
Throw a chair at him Joey!
I think Joey Vento is going to have to work really hard not to toss more than just a chair.
Go Geno!
Jeoy Vento’s grandparents probably came to the US through Ellis Island. Conservative American nativists opposed Italian immigration then too, and for the same reasons: they were dirty, wouldn’t learn English, would vote Democratic, would be a burden on society.
Ironic.
So what is it, maybe 80% of american citizens oppose shamesty? And yet we will have it shoved down our throats by one of the candidates. Sure seems like RNC isn’t listening to the grassroots.
Jerry Rivers is a horse’s ass. I solved the problem of avoiding him by never watching TV news period. Even on tube, the choices for cable are like choices for POTUS….lame. Think Olberman, O’Reilly, King and Matthews. Speaking of Philly, whatever happened to Larry Kane, Jerry Blavat, Wilson Goode, the Street Bros.?
#22 They came here LEGALLY through Ellis Island. Nimrods like you don’t see the difference between waiting your turn in line and just jumping to the head of it, sucking on the public teat. At least Ayers has a reason for his academic position- his daddy’s millions. What is yours? Can’t be intellectual acumen.
And what happened during early immigration when legal aliens committed crimes? I doubt they had their butts kissed by cops.
n April 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am, feebiebabe said:
Agreed! I like the TR quote, btw; especially this part:
“We have room for but one flag, the American flag… .”
Words that appear to meaningless and lost on the Geraldos of the world.
Anyway, this is an interesting attempt by Mr. Vento. But wonder how his treatement would be for legal tourists with no English knowledge.
I am afraid all these attempts are just making things more beauracratic and hasslesome for LEGA immigrants. An e.g. would be SAVE act in Colorado, barely affecting illegals.
The debate will undoubtedly be very interesting. However, the last time I suffered Geraldo for more than two seconds was on Fox News a year or so ago, and I swore I would never listen to him again….I have to watch my blood pressure. When there is a Geraldo alert in effect, I keep my remote close so I can change stations in a millisecond should his voice or image appear. The opacity, stupidity, arrogance, and ego of the man are simply intolerable. Nail him Joey!! By the way freebiebabe, thanks for the Teddy Roosevelt quote.
Having traveled over a good portion of the world, strangely I have never had any major issues ordering the local food in the local language. I may or may not have come across any signs requiring me to speak the local language as my reading and writing skills are much more lacking than my verbal skills in any of these additional languages.
However, before I go anywhere, I learn food (What the foods are called and how to order them) how to get somewhere or ask directions depending on local transportation, how to find the restrooms and how to order beer.
If I spend more time there, I learn more. Unlike the US, it is very common in many cultures to learn more than one language and even among the other expatriates I know, English is the common language.
That is not to say it would not happen but it would be much more unlikely than you may imagine I think.
lgm claims that “conservatives” didn’t want Italians emigrating here.
How does he know it was “conservatives”? Anti Catholics, yes, but why just “conservatives”?
Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, was hoping that some of those “dirty, unwashed” would stop “breeding”.
I bet lgm loves Planned Parenthood.
First out of the chute, the RACIST CARD. Next the NAME CALLING. Than the YELLING over the others speech. That is a liberal debate. Joey is so unfair. A battle of wits with an UNARMED opponent. NOT FAIR, NOT FAIR!!!!
Telling and well said.
The only way a reasonable debate can occur with Geraldo involved is to turn his mike off so Joey can have an honest opportunity to speak.
I think that lgm misses the point(Sorry, I know I’m not supposed to feed the troll, but I can’t help it, he or she is really ticking me off with this one).
Lgm, my grandfather came over to the country from the Azores in the ’20s as a legal immigrant without a penny to his name(quite literaly). He worked from sunup to sundown (again, quite literaly) to save enough money to buy some land and start what would become a successful almond ranch here in the central valley of CA.
Along the way, he got his citizenship (which he would proudly tell anyone who asked)and not only learned English, but also taught other Portuguese people how to read and write. Yes, he dealt with racism and prejucide, and unfortunately that is something that immigrants to probably any country have to deal with to an extent. But he dealt with it, and without the assistance of the left wing apologists who seem today to be less concerned with making it fair for legal immigrants because they are busy whining about the poor illegals who break our laws.
And before you smugly think I am talking without knowing anything, I work in the field of public assistance, and so I deal daily with the difference in illegals who want benefits but don’t want to do what is necessary to help their families(read that to mean come here legally) and those immigrants who use the system for what it was intended for; temporary assistance.
I think that you should be ashamed of yourself for using Mr. Vento’s grandparents to support your arguements. I’m sure if they were alive today, they would probably support his views because they would probably understand the concept of working hard to gain what you want instead of having it handed to you on a silver platter.
Unfortunately for you trolls, Vento is a good businessman and a decent person. They don’t turn people away who have little (or no) English. The try to help them. The sign says “please.”
But in todays real world contrary to the professor of idiocracy, who posted on #22, it is about the taxes citizens pay to support the burden caused by the illegal aspects of this invasion.
Ironic, but as a professor of film studies no one would expect a low level boob like yourself to understand the difference between illegal and legal immigration and its effects on a law and order society.
Stupid is as stupid says.
Its actually Joey, professor, and its very astute of you to comprehend that the right way to immigrate was through an orderly screening(Ellis Island), not stealing into our country and hiding in your stinkin’ liberal shadows!
Slime back to your office professor.
If you were up to speed on the story you would know that joey serves everyone.
Joey is SO RIGHT . Both Demorats candidates for potus eat else where . What a bunch of Chickens they are.
Geraldo thought the chair hurt… just wait till Vento bust him up with the fact Vento is smarter than Geraldo.. I can see Geraldo crying and running home to Alan Colmes and having Alan hold him cause everyone is being mean to him…. poor Geraldo… he needs his passy and a diaper change….. LOL
I hate Geraldo and his view on ILEGAL IMMAGRATION
I hope Joey wears a face mask!!!!!!!!! Give’em hell!!!!!!
I hope Mr Vento doesn’t think McCain will be eating at his place.
“Pull that sign. I don’t want to even see it!” will be McCain’s position.
lgm trying to carry a bringing a stick to a gun fight but your just a troll under a bridge.
wow that sentence was supposed to be lgm bringing a stick to a gun fight.
here I will make an attempt to rid the trolls from the board Trolls Awaaaay!
FOR REAL?
“Think McFly….THINK”.
There will always be those who oppose immigration for dumb reasons….But via Ellis Island my friend….they did it LEGALLY.
L-E-G-A-L-L-Y!!!!!!!
Immigrants coming here legally back then needed to have a sponsor, health tests, proof of a trade or specialty they could earn a living off of and not suck of the governement.
Apples and Oranges my friend. APPLES AND ORANGES.
Oh, LGM, the more I think about your post the more stupid it sounds….
he know’s feebz, just likes all the attention.
(OK, secretly…i love attention.
but nuff pickin on the italians coming over here legally!!!) NOT OK.
Its a cruddy argument when placed next to our current immigration fiasco. NO COMPARISON. (Unless you are a mushy brained troll, i guess)
My grandparents and great grandparents came from Sicily through Ellis Island. The difference between them and the illegal immigrant who sneaks across the border is they did it they right way. They felt blessed and were proud to become a US citizen. They learned the language and assimilated into the US culture, and yet they still were proud of where they came from. They knew where they were was better than where they came from and it was our society and culture that made it that way. But they also brought with them a work ethic and a determination to contribute to their new home and country and not be a burden. These are the words they spoke and the actions by how they lived. They were not trying nor would they think to ask the government to support them.
The majority of illegals are not here to assimilate but maintain their language and culture. Many areas that illegals and even some legals have settled do not seem like you are in the US but in another country. When I was younger and walked through the Italian neighborhoods in Brooklyn, NY I still new I was in the US, the signs were in English and the merchants spoke English (some better than others). Everybody was welcome no matter what their nationality. Go to some areas today and the signs are in the native language, the merchants do not always speak English, and in a restraunt if you don’t know the language you can’t order. You are made to feel uncomfortable and not welcome. Not all are like this but many are.
Ah, the 1900-1920 immigration was opposed by Democrats. Not much of a historian, eh?
Yippeee, mine too…from Augusta!!!! Nice Post. All the same goes from my family. Proud Americans and hardworking fun loving bunch!!!
lgm needs to move to a country where he thinks the culture and government that is there should be brought here. I am sure lgm would not be there very long before wanting to come back.
#49 - I say a one way ticket to Venezuela!
Listening Live Now! Woot! Thanks for the HT!
branden in escalon, you are so right. my grandparents came through Ellis, not as Italians but from the Middle East. My grandfather refused to speak Arabic to his children. They were going to be successes in this country and to do that they must learn English. My father and uncles all did very well as business owners. My grandfather could speak multiple languages when he came and my grandmother learned English immediately, too. My grandfather was a successful businessman until the Depression and he lost his business, but that didn’t stop him from working hard as a long shoreman and saving money to buy a farm to grow grapes in Fresno to start all over again! Hard working and here legally that is they way I like them.
with some great recipes too!
GO JOEY!!!
“If you find English to be offensive then maybe you are in the wrong country!!”
Shut Up Geraldo!!
I knew Jerry Rivers would have a hard time shouting down Joey Vento LOL
Teddy Roosevelt 1907 … Yup
Geraldo is a piece of work, what an idiot Joey ain’t takin any crap off the little weasal LOL
No spitting, Geraldo!
He’s getting fired up there.
Typical liberal never shuts up, talks over people, does’nt consider any other opinion, he is right and you are wrong.
My grandfather couldn’t LEAVE Ireland until he stated his skill—- brass fitter for ships. He came to America, and totally accepted the American culture. Any deviation was met with a swift rebuke. I have issues with Teddy Roosevelt, but his quote earlier is spot on!
Blind Mule–yep. I thought Geraldo’s interruptions and shout downs were just an artefact of the time-compressed debates on Fox News.
Apparently, he’s really like that.
Unlawful but not illegal? Is that like fake but accurate?
Listening live. Thanks. And GO JOEY! Geraldo is an idiot. And God Bless Joey and Mayor Barletta.
Why is that musty mostache allowed to filibuster like that? I cannot stand that waste of skin. Go Joey! Go Lou!
Geraldo needs a large dose of Sheriff Joe. Green bologna and beans for Geraldo.
Those who see no difference between people legally immigrating to the US and people who come here illegally must likewise see no difference between consensual sex and rape.
Lou Barletta’s campaign site is here.
Good grief!
Geraldo - Identity theft is GOOD! The thieves have to pay social security taxes which they will never recover from the US Treasury.
And, Geraldo quoting studies commissioned by the Mexican government, illegals add more to society than they cost.
Amazing.
I am a tax preparer. When someone steals your SSN, you get hassled by the IRS for money paid to them and have to spend time and money defending yourself from having to pay taxes on their earnings if the employer reported the earnings to IRS. And if it’s not reported, then they are paying NO taxes. BS, Geraldo!
I notice hill and obama never where the color yellow either!
Uhangtight, I enjoyed reading your post…it is always encouraging to hear about other families who raised thier families in this country and took pride in being Americans. What people like lgm forget is that no country is perfect, but I would rather live here that anywhere else. But you have to be willing to make sacrifices and work hard to acheive the dream (Sorry I didn’t post sooner, but I was outside playing with my power tools!)
I, on the other hand, am not as smart as you and do them in reverse order to what you do.
Naw, I learned a long time ago by the time I need to find the restroom, I have likely consumed too much beer. Thus, if I find the bathroom first … well, it makes things a little easier. I do not know what that says about me … but at least I do have enough sense to put the beer away before I go cling to my Bible or my guns.
Someone please explain to me why Fox News has Geraldo? It doesn’t make sense. It’s like NBC having Rush Limbaugh. If you ask me I think Fox has lost it’s conservative edge. I never see MM on any more. We need a Ron Paul channel!
Go Joey! I can’t wait to see the debate. It should be interesting to see a common sense patriotic American vs a clueless nitwit.
Well, I tried to listen, but was only getting about 5 bytes a minute through the “streaming” connection.
Does anyone know of a transcript, podcast, or v-log of the debate?
Thanks, J’hn1
Yo Joey….don’t forget your spitshield!!
There was a contest between Fox News and San Francisco. Whoever won got to pick between Geraldo and Gays. San Francisco got first choice.
Blind_Mule,
For future reference, PLEASE insert a warning so I will be careful when clicking a link leading to such a maniacal and wicked photoshop as you had in #40. I was rather unprepared and really did fall out of my chair. Having visited LGM’s page before, I recognized him immediately, and my stomach still hurts from the laughter.
My grandparents also came through Ellis Island from Northern Italy. Not only did they do it legally, but their single biggest goal was to become good Americans. They learned the language, worked hard and did everything they could to see to it their kids had a better life than they had. Not only did they have to work hard for everything they had, but they faced discrimination without whining about it. They got nothing, but ended up with everything because of their work ethic and integrity.
By contrast, today’s illegal immigrants want to come here, use our social services, steal our identities, send money back home and have anchor babies so they can stay and soak up even more.
I have one big question for you, lgm. Where did your ancestors come from? Were they given handouts? Did they have to learn English? Were they patriotic, maybe even fight in one or both of the World Wars? How would they feel about the sort of foolishness you’re espousing? Let me guess, they just weren’t enlightened like you.
We also need more people like Geert Wilders.
Can’t wait for Jerry to go down in flames! Go Joey!
Ignorant Mensan
B I N G O ! ! ! !
Anyone that would like that statement veruified only has to ask me or aj … we both get the extra attention this time of year … every year … we both work multiple full time jobs … in multiple states … but since we file we are the only ones the IRS talks to …
GRRRRR
Geraldo is the conservative voice of border enforcement. Every time he talks about illegal aliens, he does more for the conservative cause than Tom Tancredo. I say, keep Geraldo in the spotlight and keep the mic in his face.
Go Joe!
hmmmmm
McCain hasn’t raised the immigration issue in this campaign.
Obama hasn’t raised the immigration issue in this campaign.
Clinton hasn’t raised the immigration issue in this campaign.
What does this tell us?
I think, due to the public outcry when the bill was in congress, NO candidate will attempt to introduce it, even after the election.
So, at the end of the day, the “Immigration Issue” isn’t even on the table…It’s a push.
Is not the debate tomorrow sunday 1pm edt?
Joey Vento for President!
Anybody see the debate yesterday??
Anyone have a link where we can listen to the debate?
I tried the link above yesterday at broadcast time…nothing…grrrrr.
Obviously you have not read the original story or sidebars. To update you: He asks everyone to order in English. If you don’t have any, or little English he and his folks will help you. Very Old School American. Gotta love it.
Back in the day, immigrants came to flee persecution. Naturally, the democrats want them here at the expense of national security so they can register to vote illegally and get welfare checks while the liberal elite use cheap labor for their own profiteering.
See, LGM, immigrants back in the day WEREN’T a burden on society. In fact, illegal labor laws practiced by DEMOCRATS is what this country is built on: slavery, indentured servitude, unhealthy work environment.
All in the name of SOCIAL PROGRESS at any cost, which is the mission of liberals.
In fact, you’d rather have Peruvian farmers starve in order to preserve your ozone layer as you drive your SUV’s to go camping with the Sierra Club.
And why don’t liberals live next to the people they give welfare too?